It stars Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid, features Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre in supporting roles, and has a cameo of Aurora Miranda singing a Fado.

[2]During World War II, a schoolteacher, Vincent Van Der Lyn, who becomes a Dutch resistance fighter, causes so much trouble for the Nazis that they place a bounty on his head.

On Van Der Lyn's arrival, Police Captain Pereira notes that his passport has no exit stamp on it, indicating that he sneaked across the border, but reassures the traveler that all that matters is that the Portuguese visa is in order.

At a restaurant, Van Der Lyn is pleasantly surprised when a beautiful stranger, Irene Von Mohr, sits down at his table.

She flees into the restaurant, but as the police arrive to search the place, she quickly sits down at Van Der Lyn's table to throw off suspicion.

Van Der Lyn meets his contact, Ricardo Quintanilla, who introduces him to other members of his resistance group: Pole Jan Bernazsky, Norwegian Anton Wynat (an uncredited Gregory Gaye), and Frenchman Paulo Leiris.

However, when he mentions Jennings's dying message to Quintanilla, which warns that his killers have taken the "eagle," a rare coin that was to have been used to identify him, and something that Van Der Lyn had not been told, they know he must be telling the truth.

Quintanilla decides to set a trap by informing the group that Jennings's replacement is in the casino hotel since he knows that the Germans will move to eliminate him to plant their own agent successfully.

Quintanilla and the others escort him away, but he manages to escape from them fleeing the casino, where he is killed in a shootout with Van Der Lyn and Captain Pereira who have been pursuing him.

"[4] Savaged by critics, The Conspirators was then reviewed by Frederic Prokosch, the author of the novel on which the film was based, who wrote a brusque critique of it in The New Republic.